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Bizarre breast facts

October 29, 2010
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Women may think of their breasts as nothing more than a body part that excites men. And who can blame them? The male fascination with female breasts is as old as the stars themselves. However, there’s a lot more to discover and learn about them. Breasts have their own colorful history and their own share of interesting and odd facts. To see what I mean, here’s a collection of breast trivia from the Clevastin natural breast enhancement system:

The late French porn star Lolo Ferrari is credited as having the world’s largest breast implants. During her lifetime, she had 22 surgeries to make her breasts 73 inches round!

Although rare, men also develop breast cancer. This occurs in men between the ages of 60 and 70. Risk factors include aging, exposure to radiation, a family history of the disease, heavy alcohol intake, obesity, lack of exercise, high estrogen levels, and those who work in hot environments. This year, the American Cancer Society estimates that 2,030 new cases will be diagnosed among men. In the United Kingdom, there are 300 new cases of male breast cancer yearly.

A study supposedly published in the New England Journal of Medicine said that staring at women’s breasts for just 10 minutes a day can improve a man’s health and add four to five years to his life. The German study was carried out by a certain Dr. Karyn Weatherby who said that ogling at busty beauties is equivalent to a 30-minute aerobics workout. She said this gets the heart pumping and improves blood circulation, cutting the risk of stroke and heart attack by half!

The Milky Way Galaxy is so named because the ancient Greeks thought it was made from drops of milk from the breasts of the Greek goddess Hera.

A survey made by bra maker Triumph found that British women have the biggest boobs in Europe. More than half the women in that country wear a size D cup or larger. Denmark scored second while Holland was third. On the other hand, Italian women had the smallest breasts where 68 percent had a size B, the same survey said. But don’t lose hope. Researchers said breast size has been increasing in the Western world for the past 10 – 15 years.

Ironically, British women don’t appreciate their big breasts. Journalist Mike Adams reports in NewsTarget.com that a poll of 1,500 women there and in five other countries revealed that 22 percent of women would gladly have their breasts removed if that would help them prevent breast cancer! Ouch!

In Hong Kong, you can get a degree in Bra Studies from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University where they teach you how to design and build a bra. Recently, the students exhibited their designs at the ACE Style Institute of Intimate Apparel at the ITC Resource Centre.

If you have saggy breasts, don’t fret. Catch a plane to Iceland next year and join the alternative beauty contest in Isafjoerdur that celebrates body imperfections. The contest is open to both men and women aged 20 and above who have not undergone cosmetic surgery. It hopes to change the Western world’s concept of beauty. The first pageant was held in April 18 this year.

Lastly, if you want to do something about your breasts but are afraid of surgery, try Clevastin – the safe and effective natural product that will give you the breasts you want. Clevastin will help improve your looks and make you a better person. For more information, visit http://www.clevastin.com.

Janet Martin is an avid health and fitness enthusiast and published author. Many of her insightful articles can be found at the premier online news magazine http://www.thearticleinsiders.com.

Discovered, Wiped Out and Cloned: the Bizarre Life Cycle of the Saola

September 10, 2010
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Just over a decade ago, the saola made headlines round the world. Scientists discovered the animal in the remote Vietnamese highlands, the first large mammal to have been found anywhere in the world in more than half a century.

Since then the creature, which looks like an antelope but is related to cattle, has been discovered in several areas across the country. In the late 1990s ecologists estimated about a thousand of these shy creatures, with their long pairs of distinctive black horns, were living in the Annamite hills of central Vietnam and Laos. The creature quickly became an icon for Vietnam’s fledgling environmental movement.

But not for much longer. Scientists working with WWF (formerly the World Wide Fund for Nature) discovered last month that in less than 10 years saola numbers had crashed to around 200. Even worse, population numbers are becoming so thin that prospects of them meeting and breeding are now becoming worryingly slim. Now Vietnamese scientists are locked in a bitter battle about how to save the saola.

The WWF team believes many saolas are being caught in snares for other creatures, such as bears, which are prized in the East for the ‘healing properties’ of their gall bladders. In addition, the saola is often hunted in its own right, so its distinctive head can be mounted as a trophy.

Scientists have been unable to breed saolas in captivity. About 20 have been captured but all died within a few weeks, with the exception of two that were released into the wild again. According to David Wildt, head of the Centre for Species Survival at the Smithsonian, near Front Royal, Virginia, this problem is not unexpected. ‘Certain animals in captivity, especially ungulates, are highly sensitive to stress,’ he told the journal Science.

Thus Vietnam has found it is close to achieving an unenviable ecological record: discovering a new species of large mammal and then rendering it extinct in a few years. It is a prospect that has so alarmed scientists they have launched the ultimate hi-tech bid to save the stricken creature: they are planning to clone it.

The project is the idea of scientists at the Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology in Hanoi. Led by Bui Xuan Nguyen, the team has already isolated saola DNA from tissue samples from creatures in the wild and, working with French scientists, have injected these into the eggs of cows, a goat and a swamp buff alo. Early saola embryos were successfully created this way, but all died after a few days.

‘We don’t have any idea how to get past this stage,’ Nguyen admitted to Science – the basic problem, he said, being a lack of knowledge about how saolas breed. ‘We have no information on the reproductive cycle and no idea how long pregnancy lasts.’ However, he said that recent progress had been encouraging. Nguyen and other scientists remain confident they can clone the saola, a prospect that does little to impress other researchers. ‘Cloning is a tool for last-ditch heroics,’ said Wildt. ‘It’s too premature to consider it.’

Or as another ecologist put it: ‘There is no conservation benefit from cloning the saola. The money would be better spent trying to protect the species in the wild.’

The saolas, which were once icons of conservation, are now almost extinct.

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